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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
You just don't know what it means
I think these ideas are above your pay grade
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Where are those quotes from?
But I accept the following definition
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it's creating a fair framework where individuals can succeed based on their effort, talent, and choices
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So now explain to me the system you support that ensures Trudeau’s kids and the crack baby can meet these ideals?
It seems that significant government subsidy will be required so that people who start in a much less fortunate position can succeed based on their effort talent and choices.
And if you note I didn’t suggest people needed to start from the exact same initial conditions. I had a very important OR there. Essentially I had assumed perhaps incorrectly that it would be read as. Since it’s not possible for everyone to have the same initial starting conditions that significant subsidies would have to be put in place to bridge the gap between people who start at significantly different initial conditions to allow each person an equal opportunity at a positive outcome.
Allow me to quote Milton Friedman on his discussion of equality of opportunity
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no arbitrary obstacles" blocking a person from realizing their ambitions: "Not birth, nationality, color, religion, sex, nor any other irrelevant characteristic should determine the opportunities that are open to a person – only his abilities".[46]
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Parental wealth is an irrelevant characteristic